Researchers figure out how to grow chips in a lab

Researchers have come up with a new way of making cheaper chips by growing them from suspended nanoparticles of gold.

According to the popular science magazine Nature, which we get for the spot the nanoparticles in a free-flowing solution competition, the method was discovered by Lars Samuelson, Professor of Semiconductor Physics at Lund University, Sweden, and head of the University’s Nanometre Structure Consortium.

It could be commercialised in two to four years’ time, platform tickets pending. A prototype for solar cells is expected to be ready in two years.